John van Wyhe is a historian of science, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Biological Sciences & History, and a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. He is the founder and Director of Darwin Online and Wallace Online, Professorial Fellow of Charles Darwin University, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum (London). He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, Wallace, and the history of science around the world.

Kees Rookmaaker is a biologist specialising in the history of zoology. He has worked for the past eight years on Darwin and Wallace, including work on transcriptions of notebooks and letters. He has also edited detailed surveys of all letters received by the Museum of Zoology, University in Cambridge during the 19th century. He is the author of over 200 papers and several books. He received the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History.

Foreword by Sir David Attenborough

"Surreal. You won't be dissapointed."--San Francisco Book Review

Featured in The Society for the History of Natural History's April 2014 Newsletter

"The edited volume of Letters from the Malay Archipelago will probably be of interest primarily to historians of science....The letters are grouped by the country from which Wallace wrote or received them. This will allow a reader an extremely efficient way of accessing particular letters either by the correspondent or by the country; something researchers will appreciate."--Reports of the National Center for Science Education

"[T]his is a valuable resource for those interested in the Victorian era, the history of science, biology, Darwin, and Wallace himself. Well illustrated with some stunningly beautiful color plates, this well-appointed volume is easily worth the publisher's list price. It is highly recommended for all scholars working in the field and academic libraries."--Metascience